#rashinna

[everypigeondeserveslove]

Rashinna lives!!!!!

You can’t keep a bad bitch down

[marvelousbelladonna]

Who said “did she know?”

Was it Rashinna?

[undead-knick-knack]

Is this not the vibe of Rashinna and Gaz

[revvethasmythh]

"You don't have to apologize to us for taking out the trash," Rashinna what if I got on my knees and pledged eternal devotion to you right now what then

[annemarieyeretzian]

laudna telling rashinna “for our service to the volition, we’re all pretty aligned on this.” and adding “so we think.” and chetney saying “very convincing.” and laudna adding defensively “we will help you! we will help you all with the elf man coming in and being like ‘this is my moon now.’” (bonus: imogen saying “what she said. we want to take him out.”)

[pocketgalaxies]

C3E86 || C3E89

[burr-ell]

the two genders: Bad Bitches Get Money and Kronk

[utilitycaster]

In the end, it is misogyny but in the form of that Imogen (and most of the female cast, if we are being fair) gets reduced to just being a woman to the point that criticizing any real flaw, wrong doing, or "hey i personally maybe perhaps don't like that she did this" is turned into an attack on her because she is a woman, because after all, all women are perfect and so so dainty they must be protected (sarcasm)

Without mentioning the attacking real women in the name of the fictional one

It really is the "God forbid a woman do anything" but in it's worst form

Sorry for venting, been having thoughts about the fandom for the past 5 years

YUP. I do recommend Unlikeable Female Characters by Anna Bogutskaya which I devoured in like, one sitting over my winter break and posted a bunch of excerpts from but this discourse is extremely not limited to the CR fandom. I mean, think about all of the endlessly churning nonsense about the women of Gone Girl and Midsommar. I am going to see Love Lies Bleeding tomorrow and have steered well clear of really any discussion because I simply would like to see buff lesbians in a crime drama but apparently the discourse is rancid.

Of course there are people who assume ill of female characters while excusing men. That is absolutely a big problem. But again, we can barely talk about that. I recently made a post about how Laura is not a particularly chaotic player, and indeed is one of the most cautious players in actual play, and again I think there is a serious and important conversation to be had about how there's probably a reason why, say, Travis and Taliesin are more likely to make extremely bold moves, because they didn't get raked over the coals during C1 for stealing a cool broom from a guest character! I actually think Marisha has managed to hang on to some of her boldness and it makes her a stronger player but I would not have been surprised if she retreated after the hate she got from Keyleth. But yeah, in actual play, bold moves are pretty important. We can't even talk about how real-world misogyny holds back the actual actors without some moronic wretch being like "FIGURES THAT A MISOGYNIST CUNT LIKE YOU LIKES A MALE ACTOR."

When a character who is a man - or in some cases, characters who are not men but are played by men - does something people don't like we can say "wow, I didn't like this, but it was an interesting choice by the actor!" but we aren't allowed to either talk about the reasons why a real world woman might hesitate to play a character who does ugly things - because of the misogynistic backlash that will land specifically on her as a real person - nor can we compliment her for going for it and playing a complex flawed character, because how DARE you say a woman is anything less than some kind of Divine Feminine ideal. At best you're allowed a two-dimensional caricature of She's So Sweet And Good But Sometimes Gets Angry (this also happened to my friend Keyleth).

And this might reveal my own biases but like. I as a woman don't love being called self-centered, but that, personally, would probably lead me to some reflection. If you call me a girlfailure, even jokingly, I am going to break your nose. It's really telling that like...one of the absolute no-brainer "hey stop calling grown women girls" feminist tenets has gone by the wayside particularly with the set of people who think that meta that fails to put women on so high a pedestal they are untouchable is misogynist. They are awful towards women, fictional and real.

A line that always stuck with me from, bizarrely, a book about wordplay, was that Victorian men would treat women of their same classes as their superiors, but never their equals - they would coddle them and protect them but they wouldn't actually engage with their thoughts and foibles. (This happened to my friend Jester).

Anyway my personal solution is to keep going. On some level, as my previous post indicates, while I don't want the harassment it also only underscores my point, that a lot of these people are way more invested in being a dick to women on the internet than writing meta about the pretend women they think they like. I have to imagine they're doing this because either think they're entitled to meta they like from people who can actually fucking write it because god knows most of the people making this complaint have the most "if you can't dazzle them with brillance, blind them with the most purple-prose bullshit you can muster" attitude; or because they literally are just champing at the bit to attack women online with the ostensible veneer of "but it's FEMINIST to call THESE women cunts because they said my blorbo wasn't saintly and flawless." However, again, I know that I'm pretty bullheaded and forcibly unlearned the uh, patriarchal idea that women should not be confrontational. I do not blame people who look at this whole situation and say "I'm going to keep my thoughts to myself because this is so unpleasant."

[ladyfoxfire]

I’m curious how Matt’s going to handle the off-screen assassination attempt on Liliana. Obviously, if one or more of the PCs had gone on that mission, he would have played it out and let the dice decide her fate. But since they didn’t, it’s entirely up to him if it succeeds or not.

On the one hand, Liliana being alive makes for juicy conflict with Imogen, and it’s sad to see that plot line end. On the other hand, Matt likes to give the player’s choices consequences, and Imogen chose not to warn her mother or make more than a token effort to change Rashinna’s mind. That choice loses some of its weight if Liliana survives the attack anyway.

Whichever way it goes, it was a great twist, and I’m excited to see how this plays out.

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

I am SO intrigued by Rashinna responding, "I believe that you believe that" to Imogen rolling high to convince her that she's not a puppet of the Weave Mind. Because it implies that the Ruisdusborn, connected to the red moon by the flares at least said to be brought on by the Weave Mind, have the potential be their puppets even unknowingly or against their own wills because the circumstances of their birth were orchestrated by them

[captainofthetidesbreath]

legit, like, idk why we gotta be so hard on Rashinna about like "oh but Liliana is too powerful, we TOLD you" like yeah, of course, but what are you gonna do, NOT take the shot? and let her DEFINITELY continue stomping around?

[everypigeondeserveslove]

They just need a fourth for it to be complete

Drop your candidates for their 4th in the tags

[stickandthorn]

“You don’t have to apologize to us for taking out the trash” Rashinna I have something called The Crush on you.

[revvethasmythh]

My wife, Rashinna, is alive. All is well in the world 🥰

[annemarieyeretzian]

fearne saying “oh, that’s her title! rashinna, the golden hammer.” and ashton saying “she’s probably got a golden hammer.” and zhesh saying “her father was the golden hammer before her.” and ashton saying “she probably has her father’s golden hammer.” 😂

[mdr-mardek]

I have to say, Bells Hells are doing a really good recon mission so far, they have already some precious intel and it's not over.

The different races and the wild life; learning more about the Reilorans; the Imperium and the Volition; meeting Rashinna, the head of the Volition; infiltrate Kreviris and learning the layout on the surface and that the city is in fact underground; the Weave Mind, the flares and their effect on Ruidusborn; Ruidus weaponry; and of course, the famous backdoor in the lake on Issylra. And I'm sure, there will be more in the next episodes.

Some of them may sound like simple informations, but from a place that is litteraly unknown from anyone on Exandria, that's already big news honestly.